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Black Friday Camera SuperGuide: 7 Great Ones! – Tekzilla

admin — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 09:13:06 +0000

Digital Photography Week? Yes, but Motorola’s Droid is on our minds, too! ‘Still’ cameras that take great video. The Best Free Panomamic Stitching Tool. Favorite Digital Photography Gadgets, 7 Great Digital Cameras For Black Friday, Better Night, Low Light Photography!

Droid Sound vs. Dead Drive!
We should have a Motorola Droid review next week, but, for now, Veronica talks modding her iPhone with the evil Droid robot sound! (Patrick has another trashed hard drive, but this time it’s -not- the drive’s fault!)

Fave Photo Gadgets… and a few quick digital photography tips!
Memory cards and rechargable batteries are cheap, especially if you’ve ever missed a photo ’cause you ran out of juice, or space on a CF card! We list the lens cleaning tools we use, too, remind every new DSLR owner to buy a UV Filter to protect their expensive camera lens, RTFM before the big shoot, and more!

Pocket Tripods!
Any tripod (or monopod!) can help you take better photos, especially at night. Carrying a full sized top o’ the line floating head tripod around is a pain. That’s why we’ve got gadgets like the Joby Gorillapod and Pedco’s UltraPod and UltraClamp in our bags!

Cases
Protecting your pricey digital camera is a good idea. Roger favors a small bag from Lowe Pro for his PowerShot. Patrick’s Rebel is stored in a re-purposed Timbuk2 bag that works like a proper camera holster bag. Need a hard case? Try a Pelican or Otter Box!

Free Software: Microsoft Image Composite Editor
Sometimes, just one photo doesn’t capture the whole scene. Microsoft’s Image Composite Editor is new favorite tool for stitching together multiple photos into a seamless panorama. Just select your series of photos and drag them into the application. You can specify whether you’re standing still rotating the camera, like on a tripod, or whether you’re moving side to side, as if in a hallway. You can fix warps, adjust curvature, choose your center point… and it’ll even automatically crop your results to the biggest possible rectangle! And it’s FREEEEEEE!

Black Friday: 7 Great Cameras For Your Money!
Patrick’s usual digital camera buying advice is just go buy a PowerShot… or the A-Series, Canon’s less expensive line of digital cameras. That said, there are a ton of cameras that offer great value, like Fujifilm’s FinePix F200EXR, $250, and Nikon’s D90, $1100. Want to see the rest of our choices, including a great cheap camera? Watch the video!

Looking for solid camera reviews? Check out the hands on reviews at Cnet and DPReview.com.

Better Low Light Photography!
Night shots are tough, whether you’re indoors at the office, out at a club, or trying to photograph the stars, or our beloved Golden Gate Bridge at night. Our resident nocturnal photographer, Roger Chang, joins us with a heaping pile of digital imaging tips for when it’s dark out… or the light just sucks!

Website Of The Week: Social Status Generator
If you’re tired of putting all that effort into coming up with witty and pithy things to say on Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed, Identica, Plurk (wait, is that still even around?) then it’s time for you to check out the Social Status Generator! There really isn’t that much to it. You pick a word from the tag cloud, and then the Social Status Generator pulls a random update from the ether… check it out!

Free Photo Editing Tools … a Question Via DimDim
Christie is looking for some free digital image editing tools. Patrick’s a huge fan of Paint.Net on Windows. Thinking Open Source? The GIMP is popular, and has been ported to Mac and Windows. (tho a lot of folks have problems with it.)

It’s not free, but Pixelmator is a tool both Patrick and Veronica regularly use on OS X.

AlternativeTo.net is a great source for free alternatives to paid software… try searching there, too, Christie!

We took this question via DimDim, an excellent free, easy, open source web conferencing tool. They’re a Tekzilla sponsor. You can get a free trial -and help support Tekzilla- by signing up for the free service at DimDim.com/tekzilla!

Point and Shoot to DSLR???
Ted’s moving from a point and shoot to a pricier DSLR. What should he be looking for? We’ve got answers in the video!

Shooting Movies On A Digital Camera… or a Flip?
Todd writes, “I’m in the market for a new compact digital camera, but I’d also like to shoot some video with it. Have the video capabilities of these digital cameras approached the performance and convenience of a pocket video camcorder, say, like the Flip?”

Many inexpensive digital still cameras will take better video than the $150 standard definition Flip Mino. It’s the MinoHD and Ultra HD that are a bit tougher to beat.

Want to find out our camera picks for shooting HD video? Watch the video!

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Free Digital Camera Software: Upgrade Your Canon

admin — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:06:16 +0000

http://live.pirillo.com – I am a fan of the Canon Digital Cameras, but not such a fan of their software. Whappo sent me an email to let me know about an open-source program called CHDK, which can be used to update the software for your Digital Camera.

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Digital Camera Bait & Switch

admin — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:06:13 +0000

http://live.pirillo.com/ – One of Chris’s friend was looking at the Canon TX-1 and discovered a website that offered the camera for nearly one hundred dollars less than what Amazon was charging for it.

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Sony DCR-SR47 60GB camera review

admin — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:06:06 +0000

i do a review on the sony sr47 60gb hdd camera

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Security Camera Review

admin — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:10:16 +0000

http://go.tagjag.com/vue – http://twitter.com/chrispirillo – The Vue is a wireless camera connected to my home network, thanks to the base station. The kit includes a base station and two wireless cameras. If you’re looking to add something like this to your home network, this is about easy as it gets. This was sent to me as a review unit, but I asked them how much it is for me to KEEP it. That’s how well this works!! http://chris.pirillo.com

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Creative Vado HD 3rd Generation Video Camera Review

admin — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:08:43 +0000

http://go.tagjag.com/vado3/ – http://twitter.com/chrispirillo – Ever since I purchased it, I’ve been pretty happy with my Creative Vado HD first generation. I really like it because it has a wide-angle lens. Now, I have in my possession the Creative Vado 3rd Generation! It definitely looks a lot different than the one I already had, that’s for sure. Let’s see how it works! http://chris.pirillo.com – http://geeks.pirillo.com

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Lego Matrix Trinity Help Scene 12 Camera B

admin — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:05:01 +0000

http://www.legomatrix.com/
The bullet time dodge (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDe4v318f64) was filmed with 4 cameras simultaneously, with the main movie being shot on camera A. This is the view from camera B on the same rotating arm as Camera A. You can read all about the making of this scene at http://www.legomatrix.com/scene12_1.shtml

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Tips on SLR Camera Accessories to Buy

admin — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:39:22 +0000

http://live.pirillo.com – Calvin writes: “Just watched you video on your new Rebel XTi. Congrats! I remember when I made the jump and it was great. As a hobby photograph,I used point and shoot cameras for a while. I thought I’d suggest 5 things that I found helpful as a DSLR owner.”

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Flip Video Camcorder Tip: Get One

admin — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 05:11:30 +0000

http://live.pirillo.com – If you buy only one new tech gadget this year, you really should look at getting a Flip video camera. This thing is literally plug-and-play. It doesn’t matter if you have a PC or a Mac. If you have a USB port, you can use this camcorder.

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Flip Video Camcorder Tip: Get One

admin — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 05:11:29 +0000

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